You know, I'm going to miss Countdown.
Not so much the book--well, that too, although since I'm still expecting the last four issues in this month's Big Box O' Comics I'm not really missing it yet. I'm going to miss, of all things, the hype.
And I know how this is going to sound*, but what the hell.
Since I only get my comics once a month, I don't worry much about being spoiled. I don't necessarily seek out spoilers, but neither do I avoid them. And not avoiding them was amazingly easy for Countdown.
Wednesdays? Someone somewhere would eventually be talking about that week's issue.
And Fridays? That's when Newsarama would post it's weekly column on the title, discussing the past week's issue with the creators, and posting a few pages from the issue to come.
Seriously, that's genius. There's very little possibility of losing interest when new info is available so often. I don't remember if they did that for 52. (Once I got started I was going to keep buying 52 anyway.) But Trinity? The one of the three weeklies I'm by far least enthused about in advance? The one I'm maybe going to skip around buying, depending on who's in the second feature? Well, something like that would go a long way toward keeping me buying it regularly. (I mean, if I didn't have to order them a few months ahead of time. But you know what I mean.)
* It is going to sound as if I am weak and easily manipulated, which to some extent may be true. :)
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